Hi..
Quick question about drag-n-drop with jQuery UI.
For my CMS, I have a admin tree of items of various types, that i want
to enable drag-n-drop between.
I aim to emulate windows explorer in most aspects of operations, with
some improvements ofcourse.
I had already found a drag-n-drop library (Toolman's) before i found
jQuery, and built something where you could re-arrange the order in
which items are displayed (making them non-alphabetical, yep) by
dragging them to another position in the tree. I can drag something
_between_ 2 other items(x&y), and it will take the same parent as those
x&y, but the "LevelOrder" is set to Y, and all nodes with LevelOrder Y
get an increase of 1 ofcourse.
I'd really like to keep this functionality. It is usefull to re-arrange
menu-items.
So can jQuery UI do this?
I have two <div>s within a container <div> or <td>, underneath
eachother, with no gap between 'm.
I want to detect (easilly or even with lots of custom code) that a
dragged <div> is dragged between two of those items.
The only thing i can think of is to have a 1-pixel div between items,
that's also a droppable-container.
But then the mouse-pointer has to Exactly be on that spot..
It's too cumbersome for even an exp end-user (me), i've already tried
it, not with jQuery UI but with Toolman's lib.. I had to increase the
text-size of items in the tree so i had enough pixel resolution to both
select 'the 50% of height centered around the middle of a div', and the
25%'s at top and bottom.
And really, it's worth having this feature ppl :)
Much better than again more buttons that an average end-user gets scared by.
Less buttons -> better, imo.
Anyways, thanks for reading this, and if you have an anwser to my
question i'd really like to hear it asap.
I'm on hold with my explorer-func until i know more... ;)
